I'm at wee bit behind on this here blogging thingie,
but there has been a flurry of physics results which are worth a quick peek:
CoGENT claims CDM result - claim marginal detection of annual modulation, consistent with light CDM particle.
See resonaances for detail
Fermi confirms Pamela - say no more, nudge nudge wink wink
Talking of blind bats: AMS is on
Now for something completely different: Cliff Will explains Gravity Probe B
CMS experiment at the LHC hints unsubtly that they might be seeing stringy quantum black holes - I'll believe it when I see the Earth implode...
Theorists get over-excited about dijet decays at CDF on Tevatron
D0... not so fast.
Did you know that 50% of 5σ results are in fact wrong?
Why, yes, I have been reading a lot of resonaances recently.
Too scared to go to "Not Even Wrong"....
Next I catch up on astro, where there are some interesting actual results.
Lots of interesting actual results.
Word is CDMS sees many types of modulations in their data, but they think they are all unknown systematics.